“Fun... human nature... does no one any harm... Regular as clockwork the old excuses came back into the alert, sad and dissatisfied… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Had a couple of drinks by myself. It was a mistake. Have I got to give up drinking, too? If I eliminate… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
As the end of the what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Why doesn't hatred kill desire? I would have given anything to sleep. I would have behaved like a schoolboy if I had… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.' Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Knowledge was the great thing--not abstract knowledge in which Dr. Forester had been so rich, the theories which lead one enticingly on with their… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“He had thought that home was something one possessed, but the things one had possessed were cursed with change; it was what one didn't… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“He said, ‘Oh god, help her. Damn me, I deserve it, but let her live forever.’ This was the love he should have felt… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“A police photograph is like a passport photograph: the intelligence which casts a veil over the crude common shape is never recorded by the… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
